Microsoft Office 2003

Microsoft Office 2003 (codenamed Office 11) is an office suite made by Microsoft for its Windows operating system.

Release
Office 2003 was released to manufacturing on June 10, 2003 and was later to retail on October 21, 2003, exactly two years later after the release of Windows XP, it was successor to Office XP and predecessor to Office 2007. Mainstream support of Office 2003 ended on April 14, 2009, extended support ended on April 8, 2014, the same day as mainstream support and extended support of Windows XP.

Compatibility
Office 2003 is incompatible with Windows NT 4.0, Windows 98, Windows ME and was compatible with Windows 2000 SP3, Windows XP, Windows Server 2003, Windows Vista, Windows Server 2008, Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 and no longer supported with Windows 8 and Windows Server 2012.

 Service packs 

 Service Pack 1 
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 1 was released on July 27, 2004, this Service Pack has updates to fix bug issue of Microsoft Office 2003, the new features is Cached Exchange on Microsoft Word 2003.

 Service Pack 2 
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 2 was released on September 27, 2005.

 Service Pack 3 
Microsoft Office 2003 Service Pack 3 was released on September 17, 2007.

 Support lifecycles 
In April 2009, Microsoft will be ended support of Office 2003 because was no longer supported after release in 2003. Mainstream support of Office 2003 was ended on April 14, 2009 and extended support ended on April 8, 2014, the same day as mainstream support and extended support of Windows XP. In August 2015, Microsoft announced that Office 2003 will not supported on Windows 8.1 and Windows 10.

 Related pages 

 Microsoft Office 2007
 Microsoft Office
 Microsoft Office 2010

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